Originally Posted by
bigsombrero 
Ugh, me too. I fret about what everyone else will think.... Every woman I've dated, in the back of my mind I've wondered "will my friends think she's pretty enough?". Every job I've taken I've thought "will this look good enough to others?". Every apartment I've rented I've thought "will people make fun of me if I live here?" When I confronted my alcoholism and quit drinking, I thought "will everyone think I'm a weak and pathetic individual"?
It's relentless, and exhausting.
That comes at us from both directions! Many of us also rotated liquor stores for fear that the clerks would judge us for drinking so much!
